Religion: Yankee Seminarians

The casual tourist in Rome last weekend might have come away convinced
that English had been made the official language of the Vatican. Even
Pope John XXIII, coached for the past year, prepared to use the newest
in his vocabulary of nine languages. And to Rome a mass pilgrimage of
American Catholic clergy brought three cardinals (New York's Spellman,
Boston's Gushing, Philadelphia's O'Hara), five dozen archbishops and
bishops, and scores of other U.S. churchmen for a typically American
celebration: Homecoming Day. Most were old grads returning to their
alma materRome's North American Pontifical College, a stern seminary
for U.S. priests that...